Social Democratic Unionist Party

The Social Democratic Unionist Party (PUDS) is a Ba'athist political party in Mauritania that was founded on 20 September 1994. The party was founded by Arab nationalists and  members of a secret Ba'athist organization, and it took its name from the Ba'ath Party slogan of "Unity, Liberty, Socialism", as parties in Mauritania could not use the names of parties in other countries (such as "Mauritanian Ba'ath Party"). The party strongly supported the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War, and it held 1/146 National Assembly seats in 2017.